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TunnelVision - How Attackers Can Decloak Routing-Based VPNs For a Total VPN Leak (CVE-2024-3661) (www.leviathansecurity.com)
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Good summary by another user in the crosspost over in !programming@programming.dev:

https://lemmy.ca/post/20720943

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[–] tblFlip@pawb.social 7 points 6 months ago

breaking news: researchers discover that network protocols work as intended. mindlessly connecting to an untrusted network is still a bad idea.

to quote the article: "Do not use untrusted networks if you need absolute confidentiality of your traffic" or use HTTPS and a SOCKS5 proxy